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Welcome to the Storage Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from storage management experts. This Blog provides insights into the storage management solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

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IBM® Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy Manager software provides fast application-aware backups and restores by making use of advanced snapshot technologies in IBM storage systems. Support for VMware vSphere environments was added in version 3.1. You can back up complete datastores in just minutes while keeping virtual machines running without interruption. IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for VMware provides a vCenter GUI plug-in which is a graphical user interface (GUI) that integrates with the VMware vSphere client. It allows easy access and... [More]

While user requirements for installing and running Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Storage Resource Agents, also known as TPC SRAs, are described in the TPC Installation Guide and the TPC 4.2 Release Guide, I am still often asked "what are the user requirements for installing and running TPC SRAs?" So, I have summarized these requirements here in Service Management Connect, in the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center wiki Deploying agents onto hundreds or thousands of servers is often a challenging process, and this wiki article... [More]